[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.14 312/642] bonding: report duplicate MAC address in all situations

Sasha Levin
2025-05-05T22:26:40Z

From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 28d68d396a1cd21591e8c6d74afbde33a7ea107e ]

Normally, a bond uses the MAC address of the first added slave as the bond’s
MAC address. And the bond will set active slave’s MAC address to bond’s
address if fail_over_mac is set to none (0) or follow (2).

When the first slave is removed, the bond will still use the removed slave’s
MAC address, which can lead to a duplicate MAC address and potentially cause
issues with the switch. To avoid confusion, let's warn the user in all
situations, including when fail_over_mac is set to 2 or not in active-backup
mode.

Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250225033914.18617-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 4da5fcb7def47..203d3467dcbcd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ static int __bond_release_one(struct net_device *bond_dev,

RCU_INIT_POINTER(bond->current_arp_slave, NULL);

- if (!all && (!bond->params.fail_over_mac ||
+ if (!all && (bond->params.fail_over_mac != BOND_FOM_ACTIVE ||
BOND_MODE(bond) != BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP)) {
if (ether_addr_equal_64bits(bond_dev->dev_addr, slave->perm_hwaddr) &&
bond_has_slaves(bond))
--
2.39.5